Category: Local News

The senior Finance Ministry official arrested yesterday with 93 rounds of ammunition for 12 bore guns has been released following questioning.

Chief of National Intelligence (CNI) DIG Sisira Mendis yesterday told the Special Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC), probing the Easter Sunday carnage, that though he briefed the then Defence Secretary Hemasiri Fernando on the impending terrorist attack, the National Security Council (NSC) had not met till the coordinated suicide bombings took place on April 21.

President Maithripala Sirisena has left for India to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Narendra Modi as Prime Minister of India.

The number of complaints received by the Kurunegala General Hospital and the Dambulla Hospital against Gynecologist Dr. Siyabdeen Mohamed Safi has soared to 236 as at yesterday, hospital sources said.

IGP Pujith Jayasundera has filed a fundamental rights petition at the Supreme Court today stating that his removal from his post is unlawful.

The Media Director of the Ministry of Finance Mohamed Ali Hassan has been arrested over possession of ninety-three 12-bore gun ammunition at his house at Malwatte in Malwana this morning, the Police said.

Minister of Power Ravi Karunanayake says despite the necessity for purchase of power from the private sector domestic electricity tariffs will not be increased under any circumstance.

Air Marshal D L Sumangala Dias has been appointed as the new Air Force Commander.

Two new ministers and a state minister were sworn in before President Maithripala Sirisena today.

The Government has drafted a new ‘Cyber Security Bill’ to protect vital information and essential services from cyber attacks.

Sources from the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital revealed that 67 more complaints had been received yesterday (28), against Dr. Shafi Shihabdeen who is alleged to have performed illegal sterilisation on women at the said Hospital.

All staff members of the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital have refused to co-operate with the committee experts appointed by Health Minister Rajitha Senaratne to look into allegations against Dr. Seigu Siyabdeen Safi, currently in police custody.

Minister Kabir Hashim says the present government will continue to fight the scourge of terrorism and states it will not forfeit the duties to the country.

A six–member committee has been appointed to probe allegations against a controversial doctor attached to the Kurunegala Teaching Hospital.

Seven persons were arrested under suspicion during a joint mission carried out by the Police and Armed forces in Dummalasooriya.

The Provincial Education Department has cancelled the transfers of Muslim teachers to Tamil schools in the Eastern Province given by Governor M.L.A.M. Hizbullah.